I have seen this movie recently (i thought it was pretty good). I saw the movie with some Japaneses friends. Most of they them were surprised by the behavior of the Japanese soldiers in the movie. When i asked them if the study the WWII in school they said yes but not so much... as always little bit surprised when you know the consequence of the war for Japan ...
My japanese is not good enough to check school books.. do someone know where i could find info on how the war is taught to young Japaneses nowadays?
My japanese is not good enough to check school books.. do someone know where i could find info on how the war is taught to young Japaneses nowadays?
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There are some possible reasons why many Japanese don't know much about the WW2 and so on. For instance, some teachers are reluctunt to teach modern history since there are not a little controversial points. Or some textbooks don't carry contents enough to cover important topics during that period. On the other hand, some of them merely run out of time since they often teach Japanese history from the beginning.
The education definitely is controversial. My understanding is that there definitely is some downplaying of the WWII history in japan. This was done to help the country move on after the loss and focus on improving the country. For the first years after the war, this was probably good - and on the whole it has made Japan a powerful country.
And there is something to saying that Japan has a very long history, so shouldn't necessarily focus a lot of time on a small period of time (less than 40 years, if you count when they first took over Korea). But it is very likely they are not focusing as much as I think they should.
But the opposite is happening in China (one of the main criticizers of Japan). They feel it is useful to teach their citizens a lot about the war and Japan's impact as a way of focusing their citizen's wrath against an outside force (Japan) rather than them looking at the conditions inside their country. China also has a similarly long history to Japan, but I have heard that they spend the majority of their time on the recent history.
So education definitely is used as a political tool. Does make me wonder what in my education was changed to suit my government...
And there is something to saying that Japan has a very long history, so shouldn't necessarily focus a lot of time on a small period of time (less than 40 years, if you count when they first took over Korea). But it is very likely they are not focusing as much as I think they should.
But the opposite is happening in China (one of the main criticizers of Japan). They feel it is useful to teach their citizens a lot about the war and Japan's impact as a way of focusing their citizen's wrath against an outside force (Japan) rather than them looking at the conditions inside their country. China also has a similarly long history to Japan, but I have heard that they spend the majority of their time on the recent history.
So education definitely is used as a political tool. Does make me wonder what in my education was changed to suit my government...
I agree with Peter. There is some pretty obvious censorship in Japanese text books and schools. Japan did some pretty terrible things during World War 2, including the Rape of Nanking. But I think it was more an influence of propaganda and societal pressure that caused so many of the atrocities rather than the Japanese soldiers all being horrible people.
I think that it's important for every country to know it's mistakes and learn from them. Soldiers from every country have committed atrocities during war, so it's not just one country that has done these sorts of things. But I think that Japan should allow more discussion about it's actions during World War 2 to learn from it's mistakes rather than trying to cover them up.
I think there are a lot of good (American/British) movies about Japan during WW2 like Letters from Iwo Jima (great movie with Ninomiya Kazunari, Watanabe), The Great Raid, The Bridge over River Kwai, Empire of the Sun, and To End all Wars. I these all show the Japanese in a pretty fair light to both sides, esp. Letters from Iwo Jima. I think probably some Japanese have seen these, but I don't know how all of them reacted.
I think that it's important for every country to know it's mistakes and learn from them. Soldiers from every country have committed atrocities during war, so it's not just one country that has done these sorts of things. But I think that Japan should allow more discussion about it's actions during World War 2 to learn from it's mistakes rather than trying to cover them up.
I think there are a lot of good (American/British) movies about Japan during WW2 like Letters from Iwo Jima (great movie with Ninomiya Kazunari, Watanabe), The Great Raid, The Bridge over River Kwai, Empire of the Sun, and To End all Wars. I these all show the Japanese in a pretty fair light to both sides, esp. Letters from Iwo Jima. I think probably some Japanese have seen these, but I don't know how all of them reacted.
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